\name{rain, wavesurge and portpirie}
\alias{rain}
\alias{wavesurge}
\alias{portpirie}
\alias{nidd}
\docType{data}
\title{
Rain, wavesurge, portpirie and nidd datasets.
}
\description{
Rainfall, wave-surge, Port Pirie and River Nidd data sets.
}
\usage{
data(rain)
data(wavesurge)
data(portpirie)
}
\format{
 The format of the rain data is:
 num [1:17531] 0 2.3 1.3 6.9 4.6 0 1 1.5 1.8 1.8 ...

  The wave-surge data is bivariate and is used for testing
  functions in \code{texmex}.

  The Port Pirie data has two columns: 'Year' and 'SeaLevel'.
  
  The River Nidd data represents 154 measurements of the level of the River Nidd
  at Hunsingore Weir (Yorkshire, UK) between 1934 and 1969. Each measurement
  breaches the threshold of $65 m^3/2$. Various authors have analysed this dataset,
  as described by Papastathopoulos and Tawn~\cite{egp}, there being some
  apparent difficulty in identifying a threshold above which GPD models are
  suitable.
}
\details{
The rain, wave-surge and Port Pirie datasets are used by Coles and appear in the
\code{ismev} package.
The River Nidd data appear in the \code{evir} package.
}
\source{
Copied from the \code{ismev} package and the \code{evir} package
}
\references{
S. Coles, An Introduction to Statistical Modeling of Extreme Values, Springer, 2001

I. Papastathopoulos and J. A. Tawn, Extended Generalised Pareto Models for Tail
Estimation, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 143, 134 -- 143, 2011
}
\keyword{datasets}
